Another Finished Shawl

The knit-along with Paula at Knitting Pipeline is going great guns.  Here is my finished Shaelyn Shawl that finished out at 26" x 54".  I called it the Colorado Wine Shawl because the yarns are the colors of grape leaves, merlot grapes and green grapes in many shades of green and aquamarine.

Five repeats of the lace were completed.  Two different skeins of yarn were used; the dark green has some cashmere in it...so soft.

113 people have posted on Ravelry over the past two weeks about this shawl, with almost 1,000 people worldwide having knit up and documented this pattern on Ravelry.

Don't Forget to Eat Your Spiders

How cool is this.

Actually, the spiders are plastic rings.  You can read how to make the jello ring here where Brett Bara blogs.  That is her picture, by the way.

Rainbow Cake At a Family Picnic

The husband's brother, his daughter and grandson came for a visit. Granny hosted a family party.  You can tell from the pictures that the kids had their pictures taken several times over and had good times.

It was just the right occasion to have a rainbow cake that Cakity on Blogger first featured.

This is her colorful cake:

  Using two white cake mixes, four round pans, three cans of prepared white frosting and food dyes in four colors along with one tsp. vinegar for each dye batch, I came up with this cake, sprinkles courtesy of Michael's.  

The kids liked it.